Upper Division

IB, IC, ID, and MI courses can be taken no sooner than the term in which 60 units
of coursework are completed. They may not be selected from the primary najor department.

Integration

Requirement: Three upper-division courses: one course in each of three Breadth areas.
(Completion of the FOUNDATION and BREADTH requirements, and upper-division standing,
are prerequisites to enrollment in INTEGRATION courses.)

G.E. Prerequisites

A2 is prerequisite to C2, D1, D2, and D3

B4 is prerequisite to B1

A1, A2, A3 and B4 are prerequisite to IB, IC, ID, and MI

Full List

General Education in A-E Format

While the revised General Education Program is presented here in terms of FOUNDATION,
BREADTH, INTEGRATION, and MULTICULTURAL/INTERNATIONAL, it relates simply to the A-E
format widely used throughout the state as indicated by the course prefixes in the
table. The following list reflects those courses accepted into the G.E. program as
of December 15, 2003.

Details

General Education

Developed by both faculty and students, the university's General Education Program
is an introduction to the breadth and depth of the dynamics of human experience. It
provides students with a foundation in the liberal arts and sciences and prepares
them for specialized study in a particular discipline or program.

The overall objective of General Education is to create a context wherein basic skills
are developed and strengthened, scholarship and disciplined thinking emerge, awareness
and reflection occur, and ultimately - the integration of knowledge begins.

In the 1999-2000 academic year, the university introduced a major revision of the
General Education program that the faculty believes is improved in content and which
facilitates transfer to the university. All students enrolling in the university as
first-time freshmen beginning fall 1999 and after, and all transfer students entering
fall 1999 or after who elect to adopt the 1999-2000 catalog will be required to complete
this new General Education Program.

Foundation, Breadth, Integration, and Multicultural / International

The General Education Program is an integrated curriculum of courses organized into
four groups:

FOUNDATION, the basic foundation of one's university education, consists of courses in fundamental
skills and knowledge..

Purpose: An educated person must be able to read critically, communicate effectively, and
think clearly.

BREADTH exposes students to a variety of disciplines within a structured framework that develops
knowledge in four basic areas of human endeavor.

Area B (Physical Science) – Purpose: To understand and actively explore fundamental principles in the Physical Sciences
and the methods of developing and testing hypotheses used in the analysis of the physical
universe.Area B (Life Science) – Purpose: To understand basic concepts of living things, the nature of scientific knowledge,
and the relevance of biological knowledge to human affairs.Area C (Arts) – Purpose: To develop an appreciation and understanding of and to stimulate imagination and
creativity through study and participation in art, dance, music, and theatre.Area C (Humanities) – Purpose: Through the study of the humanities, to understand, appreciate, and analyze the meaning
of our civilization, its cultural background, and the nature and role of language.
To study the humanities from a variety of historical perspectives and cultures by
analyzing individual works.Area D (Social, Political, and Economic Institutions and Behavior, Historical Background)
– Purpose: To understand and analyze the basic principles underlying human social behavior.Area E (Lifelong Understanding and Self-Development) – Purpose: To equip human beings for lifelong understanding and development of themselves as
integrated physiological and psychological entities.

INTEGRATION ties together the Program by providing an integrative experience at the upper-division
level in three of the four areas of breadth.

Purpose: The Integration component of General Education is included to provide instruction at the upper division
level that integrates material from each of the BREADTH areas B, C, and D.

MULTICULTURAL/INTERNATIONAL completes the General Education Program with an upper-division experience as preparation
for an international, multicultural world.

Purpose: The Multicultural/International component of General Education is included to prepare students to live in an international
multicultural world.

Requirements

The General Education Program requires students to complete a minimum of 51 semester
units. All requirements must be met with courses of at least three semester units.
The requirements include: four courses in FOUNDATION, nine courses in BREADTH, and
four upper-division courses - three INTEGRATION courses and one MULTICULTURAL/INTERNATIONAL
course. These four upper-division courses should be taken no sooner than the term
in which 60 units of college coursework are completed. A minimum of 9 units of course
work for General Education must be taken in residence (see Residence Requirements) at California State University, Fresno.
Because the goal of General Education is to provide a solid foundation with a broad
scope and the goal of the major is to provide depth in a specific discipline or program,
the following stipulations apply:

Foundation courses must be completed with a grade of C or better to satisfy the General Education
requirement.

A maximum of two General Education courses from one department or program may be applied
to satisfy Breadth requirements. (However, a department or program may prohibit any General Education
course from simultaneously satisfying its own departmental or programmatic requirements.)

Integration and Multicultural/International courses must be taken outside the department of the student's major to satisfy G.E.
requirements.

Writing in General Education Courses

The university's General Education Program requires that almost all courses in the
program have substantial iterative writing assignments.

All Foundation courses except those in Quantitative Methods (B4) and all Breadth courses
will require iterative writing assignments totaling at least 1,000 words.